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Transforming the Household Products Industry With Digital Innovation
The household products industry is projected to reach US$438 billion by 2032¹. But growth comes at a heavy cost. Every bottle, wipe or refill pack is now under strict scrutiny — from what it contains to how it is made and the footprint it leaves behind.
Consumers and regulators are raising the bar: Less waste, lower climate impact and greater circularity gains. Meeting these demands calls for a digital Innovation that redefines product development at every stage, reinventing formulation, packaging and the supply chain.
Key Challenges in the Household Product Industry
In a recent PwC survey, nearly half of the consumer packaged goods (CPG) executives believed their current business model won't survive the next decade². Many are responding to investing in new product development to curb cost, regulation and sustainability risks. Yet, major challenges stand in their way.
- Product Formulation Complexity
- Packaging Compliance and Safety
- Sustainability Mandates and Circular Economy
- Operational Efficiency and Time-to-Market
Product Formulation Complexity
Today’s household cleaning products are rapidly shifting towards plant-based ingredients, bio-enzymes, green solvents and chemical-free products. Not only do consumers want these safe, effective and non-toxic ingredients, they also want these products to outperform traditional cleaners, pushing the limits of household product innovation.
Yet, reformulating isn’t simple. New formulations add layers to product complexity. Each new ingredient brings unknown and untested chemical interactions. Regulatory and safety checks multiply. Traceability becomes key. Costly physical prototypes may still fail to deliver the desired results. Without critical data and simulation capabilities, teams can spend months in trial and error to develop new suitable alternatives.
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Packaging Compliance and Safety
Packaging remains one of the biggest challenges for household products, with over 40% of plastic waste coming from packaging³. The need to reduce single-use plastics, innovate smart packaging using eco-friendly materials and rethink the right disposal method becomes urgent.
Some parts of Europe, for example, have enforced Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)⁴ schemes to tackle packaging issues by assigning accountability back to the producers. While they aim to encourage producers to redesign overall products and packaging to reduce waste, their effectiveness remains to be seen. Inconsistent regulations across different regions raise costs and barriers to adoption.
On top of sustainability goals, packaging must also protect the products’ integrity, facilitate safe use and comply with global labeling requirements. Without a unified platform that centralizes packaging data and processes and offers a single source of truth, compliance remains a complex puzzle.
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Key Benefits of Dassault Systèmes for the Household Products Industry
Consumer expectations on product safety, transparency and eco-certifications have soared in recent years. The call for transparency and digital traceability means manufacturers must now design with circularity in mind, ensuring their materials and ingredients support reuse, recycling or biodegradability.
For example, a typical bottle of cleaner is made up of 90% water and less than 10% actual active ingredients. By tackling this wasteful system with a multipurpose bottling platform to support reuse, the amount of plastic packaging can be reduced by 90%⁵.
Achieving sustainability requires bold moves, such as compostable packaging, refillable bottling platforms and biodegradable formulations. The challenge? Making this happen quickly, cost-effectively and at scale.
Sustainability Mandates and Circular Economy
Sustainable Production involves making products and services with processes that are eco-friendly, resource-efficient, economically sound, and safe for workers, communities, and consumers.
Operational Efficiency and Time-to-Market
Consumers now expect their home care products to be available anytime, anywhere — from store shelves to online store deliveries. This expectation causes constant restocking challenges and a surge in e-commerce, which increases transportation, packaging use and ultimately, carbon emissions.
What does this mean for household goods manufacturing? A relentless challenge to deliver on-time-in-full at the lowest carbon footprint possible. At the same time, supply chain disruptions, rising material costs and poor logistics planning cut into profits and delay time to market.
Without a unified system, manufacturers lack the crucial end-to-end visibility to bring efficiency from factory to store or doorstep. Siloed systems and manual data turn late-stage changes into costly recalls, lost profit opportunities and eroded consumer trust. The pressure to deliver faster, better and greener has never been greater.
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Accelerate Innovation With the 3DEXPERIENCE® Platform
Digital transformation is today’s advantage. Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform empowers manufacturers to innovate smarter and faster through:
Unified collaboration from R&D to marketing
Break silos and connect every stakeholder from research and development (R&D) to marketing on a single platform, speeding up decision-making and design iterations.
Structured specifications for compliance
Stay ahead of global shifting regulations with built-in compliance checks, streamlining changes efficiently and facilitating quick approvals.
Simulate and test products virtually
Validate formulations, smart packaging and product performance before physical prototyping, cutting cost while expediting the innovation cycle and ensuring quality and safety.
Key Benefits of Dassault Systèmes for the Household Products Industry
Faster time to market
Accelerate innovation cycles by streamlining collaboration across departments and improving competitive agility.
Improved regulatory compliance
Ensure safety and labeling accuracy with real-time validation and structured compliance management.
Sustainability by design
Design for circularity from the earliest development stages to manufacturing.
Enhanced customer trust and product quality
Deliver safe, high-quality and appealing products every time with consistent, traceable and rigorously tested products.
Connect Every Function Across the Product Lifecycle
Global materials use is set to double from 79 Gt in 2011 to 167 Gt in 2060⁶, intensifying the threat of resource depletion and demand for sustainable innovation. Technology adoption must bring the right digital tools and strategy to design sustainable household products, optimize operations and safeguard resources for the future.
From R&D and digitally formulated cleaning products to packaging, supply chain logistics and marketing, digital collaboration drives visibility, traceability and accountability at every stage. On an integrated platform, teams share a single source of truth to predict and mitigate risks, prevent disruptive late-stage changes and cut carbon footprint and waste across the product lifecycle. Issues are resolved faster and more cost-effectively.
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- Source: Maximize Market Research
- Source: PwC
- Source: BusinessWaste.co.uk
- Source: United Nations Environment Program
- Source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation
- Source: Reformulate Alternative Materials
- Source: Petrochemical Chemical Energy
- Source: McKinsey
- Source: European Commission